Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons Revised and Updated Second Edition

* Is your child halfway through first grade and still unable to read?* Is your preschooler bored with coloring and ready for reading?* Are you worried that your child will become lost in overcrowded classrooms?* Did you know that early readers hold an advantage over their peers throughout school?* Do you want to help your child read, but are afraid you'll do something wrong?SRAs DISTAR is the most successful beginning reading program available to schools across the country. Research has proven that children taught by the DISTAR method outperform their peers who receive instruction from other programs. Now for the first time, this program has been adapted for parent and child to use at home.Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessonsis a complete, step-by-step program that shows patents simply and clearly how to teach their children to read.Twenty minutes a day is all you need, and within 100 teaching days your child will be reading on a solid second-grade reading level. It's a sensible, easy-to-follow, and enjoyable way to help your child gain the essential skills of reading. Everything you need is here -- no paste, no scissors, no flash cards, no complicated directions -- just you and your child learning together. One hundred lessons, fully illustrated and color-coded for clarity, give your child the basic and more advanced skills needed to become a good reader.Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessonswill bring you and your child closer together, while giving your child the reading skills needed now, for a better chance at tomorrow.

Siegfried Engelmann is a professor of education at the University of Oregon, and has written many books on teaching, including Give Your Child a Superior Mind. He is the originator of Direct Instruction, the most successful approach to teaching, and he has developed more than thirty direct instruction programs. He has provided teaching demonstrations with a wide range of children-consistently showing that they could learn much more than had been achieved with traditional teaching. Phyllis Haddox worked as a reading specialist before she joined the faculty of the University of Oregon. She has co-authored several direct instruction programs with Engelmann, produced over twenty training videos, and served as consultant and trainer for many school districts. Elaine C. Bruner co-authored DistarR reading programs with Engelmann, pioneered training of teachers in direct instruction methods, and has worked at the University of Illinois on computer applications of direct instruction.